Zais was born in Canale d'Agordo, near Belluno. He was influenced by Marco Ricci and Zuccarelli. He worked in Venice as a landscape painter. He died in Treviso.
Giuseppe Zais
1709 - 1784
Paintings by Giuseppe Zais
![Landscape with a Group of Figures](/media/33289/n-1296-00-000017-hd.jpg?rxy=0.38166666666666665,0.70869565217391306&width=576&height=576&v=1d6543c14350bc0&bgcolor=fff)
A group of smartly dressed men and women, accompanied by two dogs, talk among themselves. On the other side of the gently flowing river, peasants experience a very different life: they wash clothes and attend to cattle beside a rustic farmhouse. As a backdrop, this painting uses a rural village f...
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![Landscape with a Group of Figures Fishing](/media/33290/n-1297-00-000015-hd.jpg?rxy=0.47166666666666668,0.72746781115879833&width=576&height=576&v=1d6543c16c4b750&bgcolor=fff)
A lady dressed in colourful clothes and holding a fishing rod gazes merrily out of the picture. She is accompanied by a woman with a net and a man who picks up a basket of fish. Other men and women gather beside the meandering river, some casting and reeling in their fishing lines. In the distanc...
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![Landscape with a Ruined Tower](/media/33506/n-2086-00-000008-hd.jpg?cc=0.06537037037037037,0,0.19921296296296295,0&width=576&height=576&v=1d6543e408b12d0&bgcolor=fff)
Figures placed carefully across the landscape lead us through the painting, from the peasants resting by a path to the rider and his white horse, and on to those walking towards a ruined arch and tower. To the right, a cow herder and his animals rest by the river while two women on the far bank w...
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